On Mar 16, 2009, at 3:01 AM, ny-irish-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:31:30 EDT > From: Sheilaploof1@aol.com > Subject: Re: [NY-IRISH] Grandfather from Cork > To: ny-irish@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <d2e.3b2567da.36eecdb2@aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > If your grandfather was born after 1864, when civil registration > commenced, > you might well find him listed in the indexes at the General Registry > Office. > Going that route opened up many doors for me...finding that ONE birth > registration made all the difference. My grandfather born 1863!! and none of the children are registered anywhere in records including the one brother born in 1865. That was checked several times, as was the fact he arrived in NYC from England in 1889, worked as a mason/bricklayer, then as a painter at what ever work he could get before joining the US Army when he got his citizenship papers. Papers say his family born in CORK......no town listed! I have searched EVERYTHING possible- census, in Britain and US where he appears only once in 1910. And that one only because wife answered the questions they never answered census again, nor did my Father. Grandfather died in 1926 Father in 1966. Yes, I have checked these over and over including books as to How to find ancestors............. I'm glad these things worked out for others but hasn't worked for this family at all. A sturdy BRICK wall!!!!!